Mineralogy Capabilities

MINERALOGY CAPABILITIES

Facility and Services

ALS Mineralogy is based in Brisbane, Australia and supports the general quantitative mineralogy requirements of external clients and ALS Laboratories in Australia and internationally. The use of this technique adds value to the projects of many international and Australian mining companies.

The ALS Mineralogy service employs the use of nine Mineral Liberation Analyser (MLA) systems to quantitatively analyse mineral samples for a large variety of applications including base metals, mineral sands, iron ores, uranium, rare earth minerals, precious metals and coal & coke samples.

• Mineral List (including formulae and elemental percentages)
• Mineral Abundances (Wt%)
• Elemental Distribution of valuable and penalty
• Grain Size Distribution
• Mineral Association, Locking and Liberation
• Theoretical Grade Recovery Curves
• Filtering of Data (e.g. to establish grain size of locked minerals of interest)
• Coloured Mineral Maps provide qualitative data